Clunes Booktown Festival 2015 program announced
Monday, 13 April 2015
The program for the 2015 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released.Among the authors at this year’s festival, which will be held from 2-3 May in Clunes, Victoria, are Michael Mori,...
On the virtual road: Blog tours
Monday, 13 April 2015
Blog tours offer children’s and YA authors the opportunity to promote their books from the comfort of their homes, gaining greater exposure, if not necessarily sales. Andrea Hanke reports. Tania McCartney,...
Thinking inside the box: Nicole Brownlee of Story Box Library
Monday, 13 April 2015
Nicole Brownlee worked as a bookseller, sales rep, teacher and teacher-librarian before starting her own digital storytelling business. She shares her career journey.My love affair with children’s literature began during...
Discovering history: Sue Lawson on ‘Freedom Ride’
Monday, 13 April 2015
Sue Lawson’s YA novel Freedom Ride (Walker Books, July) is based on a significant event in Indigenous civil rights history. Reviewer Carody Culver spoke to the author.Freedom Ride incorporates real...
Shelf talk: New romantics
Monday, 13 April 2015
Although romance fiction technically should have a happy ending, some Australian authors are gaining huge recognition for romantic series where the happy ending is delayed across several books. Prepare for...
Unhappy families: John Tesarsch on ‘The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman’
Monday, 13 April 2015
John Tesarsch’s The Last Will and Testament of Henry Hoffman (Affirm, July) is a family drama that plays out in the lead-up to Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires. Reviewer Hannah Cartmel...
Shelf talk: Classic comics
Monday, 13 April 2015
Once upon a time a New York Times bestselling story featured every fairytale character imaginable in one epic tale. The final volume of America’s most successful graphic novel series Fables...
Leading Edge Books relaunches website
Friday, 10 April 2015
Leading Edge Books has relaunched its website www.indies.com.au. Among the features of the new website is a store location service to help customers find their nearest independent bookstore. The service...
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 shortlist announced
Friday, 10 April 2015
In the UK, the shortlist been announced for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, run by literary charity Booktrust. The shortlisted titles are: By Night the Mountain Burns (Juan Tomás...
Hockey flags changes to GST on downloads
Friday, 10 April 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has flagged that the GST could be applied to intangible downloads such as ebooks as part of ‘tax integrity’ measures to be introduced in the May...
Kibble and Dobbie Awards 2015 longlists announced
Thursday, 9 April 2015
The longlists for this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced.The longlisted titles for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female...
Arthur C Clarke Award 2015 shortlist announced
Thursday, 9 April 2015
In the UK, the shortlist for the 2015 Arthur C Clarke Award for science-fiction has been announced. The six shortlisted titles are: The Girl with All the Gifts (M R Carey,...
Oyster launches ebook store
Thursday, 9 April 2015
In the US, ebook subscription service Oyster has launched an ebook retail store with over one million titles, reports Publishers Weekly. Ebooks can be purchased by subscribers and non-subscribers via...
Rights round-up
Thursday, 9 April 2015
SalesNonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Polish rights to Crimwife: An Insider’s Account of Love Behind Bars (Tanya Levin) to Hachette; and UK and US rights to David Kilcullen’s forthcoming Quarterly Essay...
New APA committee members elected; Adler returned as president
Thursday, 9 April 2015
New members have been elected to the Australian Publishers Association’s (APA) sectional committees at the APA’s AGM on 1 April.Publisher Jane Curry has joined the Independent Publishers Committee (IPC) as convenor,...
Former Labor MPs call for repeal of parallel importation restrictions
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Two former Labor MPs are urging the government to remove parallel importation restrictions on books following the recommendations in the Competition Policy Review’s final report, reports the Australian. Former trade minister...
Quote of the week
Thursday, 9 April 2015
‘The PIRs should finally be abolished, buried and cremated so they don’t rise like zombies in a quite different future’—Peter Donoughue argues for the removal of Parallel Importation Restrictions following...
On tour: Meet the author Anthony Horowitz
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Anthony Horowitz is the bestselling author of the ‘Alex Rider’ series and ‘The Power of Five’ series (both Walker Books). He will be a guest of Sydney Writers Festival in May.What...
Hachette Australia to bring Gollancz SF festival to Australia
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Hachette Australia will bring the second Gollancz science-fiction and fantasy festival to Australia and New Zealand from 16-17 October.The inaugural festival, which was run in the UK by Hachette/Orion imprint Gollancz, was...
VIDA 2014 count shows low numbers for women
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, VIDA has released its annual figures on how many women and men were reviewed in, or wrote for, various high-profile literary publications. The 2014 count shows that...
Australian anthology included in Tiptree Awards honour list
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Australian YA anthology Kaleidoscope (ed by Alisa Krasnostein & Julia Rios, Twelfth Planet Press) has been included in the 2014 Tiptree Awards honour list, the annual prize that recognises works...
Cutter wins inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the UK, The Troop by Nick Cutter (Headline)—the pen name of Canadian author Craig Davidson—has won the inaugural James Herbert Award for Horror Writing, reports the Guardian. Pan Macmillan...
Lish wins 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, Atticus Lish has won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his debut novel Preparation for the Next Life (Oneworld), reports the Washington Post. Lish’s novel was...
Hugo Awards 2015 nominees announced
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In the US, the nominees for the 2015 Hugo Awards for science-fiction have been announced. The nominees for best novel are Ancillary Sword (Ann Leckie, Orbit); The Dark between the...
Larke, Canavan win Ditmar for best novel
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Glenda Larke’s The Lascar’s Dagger (Hachette) and Trudi Canavan’s Thief’s Magic (Hachette) have been named joint winners of the best novel award at this year’s Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction,...
Book Links, QWC to host annual lecture on children’s literature
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Book Links—the Queensland branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia—and the Queensland Writers Centre will host the first annual Book Links Lecture on Children’s Literature in June. The annual...
Canadian book sales steady in 2014
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
In Canada, the volume of print book sales has remained steady in 2014 compared to the previous year, while the value of sales has dropped slightly, reports Publishers Weekly. A...
International library news
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
Pennsylvania university to lend ipads via vending machineIn the US, the Free Library of Philadelphia has partnered with Drexel University in Pennsylvania to install a vending machine that lends up...
Bestsellers this week
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
This week’s bestsellers chart mixes the old and new with Going Paleo (Pete Evans & Nora T Gedgaudas, Plum) in the top spot for a second consecutive week, ahead of a slate...
Penguin Random House UK creates Penguin Platform for teen readers
Tuesday, 7 April 2015
In the UK, Penguin Random House (PRH) is targeting readers aged 16-19 with content across various social media platforms under the brand Penguin Platform, reports the Bookseller. The publisher will produce teen content for...
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